Gaining a deeper understanding of pods

Although birth and death are merely a blink during a pod's lifetime, they're also the most fragile points of a service. We want to avoid common situations such as routing requests to an unready box or brutally cutting all in-flight connections to a terminating machine. As a consequence, even if Kubernetes takes care of most things for us, we should know how to configure our service properly to make sure every feature is delivered perfectly.

Starting a pod

By default, Kubernetes moves a pod's state to Running as soon as a pod launches. If the pod is behind a service, the endpoint controller registers an endpoint to Kubernetes immediately. Later on, kube-proxy observes the...